TEXUS launch from the Esrange rocket launch site, northern Sweden

On 29 November 2009 at 10:00 CET, a TEXUS (Technologische Experimente unter Schwerelosigkeit – technological experiments under weightless conditions) research rocket carrying German experiments was successfully launched from Kiruna, in northern Sweden, on behalf of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR).

Credit: Astrium.